My story of what its like to be married to an Amway cult follower. I expose the lies that our upline told and what happens at Amway meetings and functions. I leave the explanations of why Amway is a poor business opportunity or the tool scam to other bloggers. This blog mainly exists to curse out my former upline, aka the cult leaders, and to let everyone know what kind of idiots I had to put up with. Feel free to join in or live vicariously!

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Staying In Amway For Fear of Breaking Marriage

Yup, that was the criteria a searcher used and found their way to my blog: Staying in Amway for fear of breaking marriage.

Very disturbing. Not the part about fearing Amway because Amway should be feared.

I heard at countless Amway meetings how Amway saves marriages. And even some bullshit from our Platinum about how WWDB has a lower divorce rate than the rest of the population. How the hell he came up with that little gem I’ll never know. But then all he’s good at doing is spouting off lies and expecting his beloved cult followers to believe every word he says is true.

I think what I have to say about the hell I went through thanks to Amway and what other women have said, some who’ve left comments here, and other comments I’ve borrowed from other web pages speaks for itself.

The wives of ambots are victims in the Amway pyramid scheme.

We have to put up with husbands who are being brainwashed by their cult leaders. They turn into nasty, sarcastic, sneering assholes who are turned against everyone who doesn’t support their Amway business.

As our Platinum used to chant: “People who are not in Amway are stupid.”

Our husbands believe that. They don’t want to be around stupid people. And yes just because their sack of shit Platinum says it makes it true. In their brainwashed minds that is.

In addition to the personality change that women have to put up with from their ambot husband, they can also look forward to not spending much time with him. There will be at least two Amway meetings a week. Maybe as many as four. The upline will be demanding the husband’s attention either in the way of lengthy phone calls, never ending text messages, or being summoned to last minute counselling sessions.

Let me just take a moment to send a big fuck you out to our former upline now that I’m reliving those horrible memories! Fuck you assholes!

Also the wife has to deal with spending no time with the ambot husband. He’s not interested in family get togethers, going out with his wife and family for fun outings, going on vacation. Nothing. He’s not interesting in doing nothing unless its kissing his upline’s ass and going to Amway functions.

Then there’s the finances. Credit cards are being maxed out so the ambot can buy as many Amway products as his upline bullies him into doing. Gotta get that PV up there so some upline fucker can meet that month’s goals! Bank account is dwindling. Bills are not being paid. Rent or mortgage is a few months late and perhaps eviction or foreclosure proceedings have been started. No marriage needs that kind of stress added on to the participation in Amway being the cause of it.

Their credit scores have gone down the toilet.

And just a few months ago their marriage was great. There was no debt. They had some savings. Bills were never overdue. They were having fun together and loving life.

Then the evil monster named Amway took a shit on their marriage.

Wives can tolerate a lot of things from their husbands. There’s always that one ugly piece of furniture they want in the house. Or that Rolling Stones T shirt they had to buy. They always have some dipshit asshole for a friend that the wife can’t stand. They go through weird phases like when they decided buying a 4 wheeler was a good idea.

The problem with Amway is that the wife ends up having all her husband’s new friends turn against her if she doesn’t join him and stand by his side smiling stupidly at him and keeping quiet like a good little ambot wife. The upline ambots do everything they can to destroy the marriage telling the ambot his wife is a dream stealer, negative, unchristian, a loser. What ever those troublemaking bastards brainwash the ambot into believing. They are hell bent to destroy the marriage because she doesn’t support the Amway business and doesn’t want to put any more money into it or go further into debt trying futilely to be part of the less than 1% of IBO’s who actually earn money at Amway. She knows a business with a 99% failure rate has the odds stacked against them from the start. There are better ways to invest their money. Common sense decisions like that and cutting off money to the great Amway gods makes ambots scream out every lie they can to turn the husband against her.

The wife has fallen into a dark place when she has to hit the Internet with the question asking if she should stay in Amway even though its breaking up their marriage.

4 comments:

Hello Anna, I have been reading your blog for the last two days now and everything you have written along with the comments written by your visitors I saw happen in another MLM SCAM company called ARBONNE. There are literally dozens of these MLM companies out there; scamming large numbers of people worldwide. Here is my story:

Around two weeks ago, I was looking at a job website and came across this advert about a so-called job opportunity. It was very vague but I applied for it anyway.I received some emails with some sleazy videos about making money and an andress to go to.I was a bit suspicious but ended up going anyway. So the crooks came in and started giving some speech about financial independence and how we can make loads of money and never have to work again and all the other lies. They also strongly implied that we shouldn't listen to anyone outside of the company because they simply wouldn't know anything about this so-called business opportunity I.E. SCAM.

I didn't like the feeling I got from those presenters, they seemed so shallow and greedy beyond belief. Anyway the brainwashing session finished and the greedy bitch who had put up the advert and sent me the adress to that place was also there and asked me and some other potential people she had invited to get in contact with us e.t.c. So I talked with her a bit more a few days later and it was only then that she started revealing that I would have to pay £50 membership fee,£60 for the website they would give me to sell their useless overpriced products, and that I would have to buy £100 worth of their products every single month to be able to get commissions from selling their junk products.Basically a complete scam. Up until then due to lack of information I was just thinking it involved just advertising the product online and when people bought the product from the siteI would get some commission from it.Which is nothing like what they really do.

When I was talking to her she said that she "worked" for the company not because she wanted to spend more time with her children,but that she just did it for herself. Righttt...So their children are not really that important to them,what's more important is trying to make as much money as possible by lying and scamming people.Unbelievable...

On the same site,I saw another similar advert with a similar layout "join us for a business opportunity" when I enquired about more information; guess what, it was another MLM company called Forever Living...Those crooks are everywhere....

Most of those companies started in USA but now they are moving into Europe and Asia to scam tens of thoudsands more people.And the corrupt governments are doing nothing about it.Needless to say I gave them none of my money and cut contact with them.

PEOPLE BE AWARE! ALL MLMs ARE SCAMS! THEY ARE ALL PYRAMID SCHEMES THAT USE AN OVERPRICED PRODUCT AS A FRONT TO DISGUISE THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOTHING BUT SCAMS.ONLY THE TOP 1% MAKE MONEY FROM THESE SCHEMES!

Alexander - thank you for stopping by with your story! I definitely see the similarities with Amway. Some ambots use a similar procedure placing phony job offers and then you're sucked into a meeting to get more information and where they put pressure on you to sign up. I'm sure they're not the only MLMs that use deceptive methods. Yes staying away from MLMs is a good idea because you won't make money and you might end up financially and emotionally devastated.

Here I am just reading about cults and amway and mind control. Weird stuff. Then my dear niece says "I'm going to this seminar." "Oh, what about?" "Life coaching." "Oohh. Who runs it?" "Landmark Education." What the fuck amway assholes? Wait... this isn't amway. But it's still fucked up. And I do find myself calling everyone who pisses me off "amway asshole." I thank you for that! It flows.

Anonymous. - thank you for stopping by. Yup life coaching, leadership training, mentoring program, and probably a ton of other names that I have long since forgotten are all standard Amway lines to scam others. I hope you can talk some sense into your niece before she goes into debt funding her upline's dreams. And yes people in Amway are the biggest assholes around. They may not have started out that way but inside a month that's what they turn into and stay assholes until they quit.

Comments are moderated but we publish just about everything. Even brainwashed ambots who show up here to accuse us of not trying hard enough and that we are lazy, quitters, negative, unchristian dreamstealers. Like we haven’t heard that Amspeak abuse from the assholes in our upline!

If your comment didn’t get published it could be one of these reasons:1. Is it the weekend? We don’t moderate comments on weekends. Maybe not every day during the week either. Patience.2. Racist/bigoted comments? Take that shit somewhere else.3. Naming names? Public figures like politicians and actors and people known in Amway are probably OK – the owners, Diamonds with CDs or who speak at functions, people in Amway’s publicity department who write press releases and blogs. Its humiliating for people to admit their association with Amway so respect their privacy if they’re not out there telling everyone about the love of their life.4. Gossip that serves no purpose. There are other places to dish about what Diamonds are having affairs or guessing why they’re getting divorced. If you absolutely must share that here – don’t name names. I get too many nosy ambots searching for this. Lets not help them find this shit.5. Posting something creepy anonymously and we can’t track your location because you’re on a mobile device or using hide my ass or some other proxy. I attracted an obsessed fan and one of my blog administrators attracted a cyberstalker. Lets keep it safe for everyone. Anonymous is OK. Creepy anonymous and hiding – go fuck yourselves!6. Posting something that serves no purpose other than to cause fighting.7. Posting bullshit Amway propaganda. We might publish that comment to make fun of you. Otherwise take your agenda somewhere else. Not interested.8. Notice how this blog is written in English? That's our language so keep your comments in English too. If you leave a comment written in another language then we either have to use Google translate to put it into English so everyone can understand what you wrote or we can hit the Delete button. Guess which one is easier for us to do?9. We suspect you're a troublemaking Amway asshole.10. Your comment got caught in the spam filter. Gets checked occasionally. We’ll get to you eventually and approve it as long as it really isn’t spam.

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I'm married to a former Ambot - one of those annoying commissioned Amway salespeople. Fortunately he saw the light of the horrible cult he was part of and ended his association. I'm here to report on the crap he took and I had to put up with. Hoping I might be able to help some poor souls who find themselves in the same situation I was - married to an ambot.